bOn Saturday 17 January 2004 11:01, Niall O Broin wrote:
> > I don't understand why so many people are against upgrading.
>> I offer an alternative explanation. Maybe, just maybe, there are people
> with more experience of upgrading than you and hence they have come across
> problems which you haven't which made them wary of the whole process. Once
> bitten, twice shy and all that.
So, you have a problem upgrading and do a complete install instead.
Is that any reason not to try upgrading the next time?
I can think of at least 3 occasions on which a complete installation
would have been disastrous for me.
Eg neither the RH-9 nor the Fedora-1 kernels ran on my SCSI-only desktop.
Also, I don't have a floppy drive or CD drive on my Sony C1VFK laptop,
and I don't believe it would have been possible to install RH-8.0 on it.
(I would have been asked to insert a floppy.)
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